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• I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente.

  Roberto Baggio

  Pasta, Als, Broke

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• As a kid, I can't remember having anything to play with except a loose tooth. And that wasn't mine. It was my brother's.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Brother, Kids, Play

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• The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

  Neil Jordan

  Girl, Sensual, Looks

  "In the Company of Neil Jordan: Teaching Little Girls Not to be Afraid of Wolves". Interview with Michael Dare, first published in LA Weekly, April 19, 1985.

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• I'm just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.

  Bill Hicks

  Real, Coffee, Skins

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• Rod Stewart, Elton John and I were going to form a band called Hair, Nose & Teeth after the three of us. But it hasn't happened because none of us can agree on the order of the words!

  Freddie Mercury

  Order, Hair, Band

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• I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect.

  Freddie Mercury

  Perfect, Done, Way

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• By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?

  Alan Grayson

  Men, Blood, Talking

  "Alan Grayson: It’s Hard For Me To Listen To Cheney Speak, He’s Like A Vampire" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Certain people in the United States are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Cutting, America, People

  Time magazine, September 09, 1985.

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• There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.

  William Golding

  Movement, Lord, Claws

  William Golding (1983). “Lord of the Flies”, p.156, Penguin

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• My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

  Colleen McCullough

  Character, Bits

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• I said, "OK, Ammon [Hennacy], I will try that." He said, "You came into the world armed to the teeth. With an arsenal of weapons, weapons of privilege, economic privilege, sexual privilege, racial privilege. You want to be a pacifist, you're not just going to have to give up guns, knives, clubs, hard, angry words, you are going to have lay down the weapons of privilege and go into the world completely disarmed."

  Utah Phillips

  Giving Up, Gun, Knives

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.

  John Keegan

  Stress, Fighting, Successful

  John Keegan (1999). “The First World War”, Knopf

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• Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin’ and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie…Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value…Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up.

  Ted Nugent

  Hippie, Hair, Two

  "Dee Snider Reminds Republicans Ted Nugent Allegedly Dodged Vietnam Draft In Gross Way" by Cavan Sieczkowski, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 24, 2013.

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• If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.

  Al-Mutanabbi

  Thinking, Lions, Ifs

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• I've got tooth marks on my heart.

  Mike Melvill

  Heart, My Heart, Mark

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• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Giving, Taste

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1119, Delphi Classics

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• I look to everyday magic in art to remember how to live: how to estrange and vivify ordinary objects and beings. So little, really, is ordinary, but to remember this I need the brain chemical of painting and film and reading I had a thrummy doomed oracular feeling when I wrote blackened baby teeth into my little blind boy story: I saw teeth and in an instant they were becoming something else. They were buckshot. They were food. They were tiny flightless corvids.

  Noy Holland

  Baby, Art, Reading

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• When I was your age, we didn't have the Internet in our pants. We didn't even have the Internet not in our pants. That's how bad it was. I know I sound like my grandfather right now. We didn't have teeth! There were no questions marks, we just had words! What was I talking about? The Internet...Not only can you not plan the impact you're going to have, you often won't recognize it when you're having it.

  Dick Costolo

  Impact, Talking, Grandfather

  Dick Costolo's Commencement Address at University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, www.c-span.org. May 4, 2013.

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• That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it!
  That is what turns on the growth mechanism in your body.
  That last almost impossible rep where you're bearing your teeth, you're shaking all over, you need assistance!
  That rep is very special, that rep is very different. There's something special going on inside your body when that happens.

  Mike Mentzer

  Over You, Growth, Special

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• Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

  Alice Hoffman

  Writing, Fairy Tale, Tales

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• People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Running, Thinking, People

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• A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Wise, Meaningful, Wisdom

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Tails, Division

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Stars, Father, Night

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.

  Vincent Canby

  Might, Dental, Dentist

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